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Modern Description: Unfinished marble sarcophagus with 3rd c. reburial, just above cinder track above the marble Panathenaic Stadium. Beside it an inscription to the "Marathonian Hero." On the summit above is a Roman mortar-rubble platform, thought to be the funerary monument of Herodes Atticus. Access is by the gate of the Track Club on Archimidous St., or ask a dog-walker when the gate is locked.
[Judith Binder: Herodes Atticus.: Grave in the Panathenaic Stadium with an epitaph, state burial monument, 179 A.D.: Philostr. VS 11.1.15; Tobin, J. 1997, 181-185, figs. 34-35; cf. Welch, K. 1998, 136-141]
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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